the sale season gets underway in the u.k. but despite the very british items up for grabs a month of slice of the profits goes straight into the hands of foreign owned companies. defying international objections israel continues to push for widespread settlement expansion in east jerusalem and occupied territories in retaliation to the palestinians a recent e.u. one state does upgrade. and as a once feared a rainy and terrorist organization gets the backing from washington look for its own toll road on why many of that believe little has a really trenched within the group.

this is also you come into your life. and welcome to the program they say all season is underway in the u.k. where millions of people are still indulging themselves with some festive holiday shopping but little do they know that much of the money they thought they were spending on iconic british products actually goes straight into the pockets of foreign owners. or has the story for us. proud to be british brits interests alike often pay for their quintessentially british experience says unaware that they're run by foreign companies harrods the dorchester hotel and even the queen's grocer fortnum and mason keeping the fortnum and mason is a british store. is it not. it's been here for ages so i

assumed it was wholly owned by british people. never mind everything's ok now you know the reason that things are getting. so bad almost half the companies in the u.k. and now in foreign hands the coalition government in britain likes to talk about the march of the makers can have a march of the makers if we're selling of all that is good household names like the chemist cadbury's chocolate and weetabix cereal have all been gobbled up by foreign corporations your traditional bacon butty hardly imaginable without h.p. source the name stands for houses of parliament the label even has westminster on it but the white house might be more fitting h.p. now belongs to heinz and as you're spreading your hartley's jam or your son packed peanut butter over your morning toast you might be surprised to learn that these

british brands were just bought up by another american company in fact even thames water which comes out of every single tap in and around london now belongs to an australian company advocates of foreign takeovers say they inject much needed cash into the british economy recently with premier foods not only selling off. pick or selling off. some people and also closing down some of their home manufacturing and it's interesting what's the reaction a great use for investors although is bleak news just before christmas. for the workforce two years ago kraft the u.s. food giant swallowed up cadbury's chocolate it was a hostile takeover they slashed four hundred jobs and moved production to poland in the process but there are those that say that the loss of sweets is the least of britain's problems and the loss of control over ports to in this country and around

the world where we have a huge network of of good international ports i think is a very serious matter the loss of control over our airports the loss of control particularly over our energy companies which means decisions about our energy could control in supply and not made in london there maybe in paris in the or overseas tax havens such as in switzerland when companies take over they often move headquarters away from the u.k. or look for better advantages in terms of the tax system a good example of the chemist which is a company with a head office in nottingham for one hundred sixty one years and moved in switzerland where we had revenues of around eighty nine million pounds of corporation tax and they reduced that to nine million so burden is then placed on the u.k. tax increases i think in terms of the eighty or other forms of taxation has to be found and we're the ones paying for it other nations governments scrutinize every

overseas bid france for example argues that it's in their national interest to prevent key technologies falling into foreign hands so while it's often difficult for a british company to buy abroad over thirty billion pounds worth of domestic companies made their way into foreign hands last year last month westminster said that it wouldn't change any laws but would take a greater interest in foreign acquisition the only thing is by the time they get around to it there might be nothing left to sell. art see london. flying in the face of international criticism israel has announced its plans to build more settlement homes in occupied east jerusalem it brings the total number of settlements approved in the last few weeks to five and a half thousand the details are from poilus clear what we're witnessing is that israel is continuing with its expansion of settlements and this new announcement is that it has approved the building of some one thousand two hundred new secure homes

which is a neighborhood in east jerusalem across the green line it comes in less than a month after israel's controversial statement that it was planning to build in the one corridor all which links jerusalem to the west bank and this is a real line for many states and certainly we've witnessed that kind of criticism and condemnation from the international community since the palestinians went to the united nations several weeks ago for upgraded statehood there have been some five and a half thousand new homes announced in terms of what the israelis were building israel has undergone as i say strong international criticism for these announcements with many in the international community voicing their intense displeasure at these actions by the jewish state in fact the israel's closest ally which is the united states in a rare and blunt move said it is well was engaging in to quote a pattern of provocative action by continuing with settlement expansionist plans

domestically the kind of statements that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is making with his proposal and plan to go ahead with the settlement building is current favorite among the israeli certainly he is appealing to right wing voters and according to all the polls he is likely to win the next parliamentary election so these kind of statements are playing into the election that is safe to happen about a month from now at the same time has largely rebuffed the criticism from the international community saying that you're missing them is the. eternal capital of the state of israel and will continue to build if a united to do so when he says expresses a wide national agreement and so i think this is the kind of sentiment that is feeding into the israeli public and then there is of course some school of thought that points back to two thousand and five when there is radius withdrew from settlements in the gaza strip with some critics asking whether or not all of the

fear at the moment will ultimately lead to the same kind of conclusion the question mark over whether or not in the future israel will have to withdraw from the signal most that it is announcing today it's planning on building. the parliamentary elections in israel are fast approaching some experts say there's going to be much more talk about the settlements. settlements is definitely within the billowy of talking into the center right voters so i believe that between now and twenty second of january we'll see only elevation of the discourse from the prime minister and around on the issue of settlements i hope that those will stay only messages which are connected to elections and not realities and practices on the ground of the five hundred thousand of being divided that are two hundred thousand total with the in jerusalem and there is a total agreement with the palestinian side in the negotiations in the past that all the two hundred will stay inside is why we agreed delineate the borders of jews

then we have the three hundred thousand in the west bank those approximately two hundred thousand out of them which are living very close they just sent to the green line would become part of is well within the exchange of territories and there is a minority of approximately eighty to one hundred thousand israelis which will have to be evacuated as happened in two thousand and five with our previous government offer and shown in which israel evacuated approximately ten thousand which was just a good example for the fact that we can make it so if between us and peace will be standing one hundred thousand is where it which will have to go and be accepted and we. will be compensated etc i believe that this is something which goes within the national interest of the majority of israelis. washington and seoul are eyeing a lucrative military contract south korea is expected to purchase for high altitude spy drones from the glass was an estimated one point two billion dollars the deal

has to get the green light from congress before it can be signed off south korea has been under america's ability for decades with almost a says he thousand u.s. troops currently stationed in the country washington recently approved the expansion of south korea's missile range mading that its warheads can now reach any corner of its northern neighbor and political analyst and poet says the drone deal only outfielder that they korean peninsula. if congress allows these drones to be sold to south korea that i think will happen is that they will use these drones to manufacture the demilitarized zone so the south korean border they get more ships attention will be used to montreal north koreans and your korea's nuclear facilities but we have to remember that you are just one of many kinds that's territorial integrity sort of thing will happen is if three rooms for example penetrate with three air space is that potentially scary if you can see it and if you look at the results of that is suffering the elections the president are

getting paid she can. be to the way she quickly and then we get easier but i think what this shows is that they are just you these groups are having to intreat least the party doesn't really have any plans to go to change its foreign policy trajectory in the. on the way for you gets a new constitution nearly two years after the toppling of mubarak but not everyone's cup it would be a prospect say holds for the country's future so we'll break down the contrasts interest for a minute. and else he looks back at the u.s. presidential debates between fed policy it's a special and. that's coming up after a short break. and. deadly rivals for decades. if you had fifteen thousand people killing each other

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you're watching alice he is good to have you with us. iran's tough times as an international outcast could be about to become even tougher the u.s. has removed a notorious earring in militant group the k. from its terribly luck list and has now given them the title opposition exile washington claims it's because the group hasn't committed a terrorist act in over a decade and was a peaceful regime change in the country maria explains now why some iranians are wary of the. muhammad shows me his box of handmade treasures earrings pendants all made from stone the only material he could find in the prison yard. this is how we killed time and the pain from torture and hunger i still get headaches when i

remember this time from valley iranian soldier mohammad spent eighteen years in an iraqi jail during the nineteen eighties iran iraq war he says he would have been freed earlier if he joined the ek the mujahideen it helped to realize the militant revolutionary group was fighting iran in authority on the side of saddam hussein and recruiting new members among prisoners but mohamed refused. they were terrorists killing innocent people i couldn't have anything to do with them i betray my country then the group indeed had a very gory history in the one nine hundred sixty s. it started a bombing campaign against iran shot and his allies they were linked to the killing of american citizens and welcomed the u.s. embassy siege in tehran openly calling for the execution of the hostages. the terror continued after islamic revolution with the assimilation of the country's president prime minister along with many politicians and clerics with generous

support from hussein it fought hard in iran as well as saddam's enemies inside iraq in one nine hundred ninety seven and make a joint america's list of terrorist organizations along with al qaida and hamas and was cited in arguments for the invasion of iraq today iran iraq still view ek as terrorist group but america's position has now flipped any case as a ranch democratic ah this is just part of the large scale and successful lobby to get and make a off the terror least among backers former white house officials army generals and cia chiefs to extremely disturbing this is a this is this at the time was a terrorist group they were supposed to be paying officials and moving money around and yet somebody was turning a blind eye to that campaign i think that anything potentially is going to have an influence on the u.s. policy towards iran and could get us into a very dangerous position as far as potentially going to war with iraq iranian officials second that saying and became

a place similar role that america back to position forces played in regime change in libya and in the current conflict in syria the main supporters of beasts to reduce groups or counters because they use for through to access through political means. new yorker reporter in his article called our men in iran reveals how members of m.b. k. were trained by america's joint special operations command in a camp in nevada. this is part of an anteroom policy sanctions on iran a strong but they don't seem to work very well america started using inside agents to destabilize the country using terrorism as a tool and out of those question the ties between israel and iran according to america's n.b.c. network unnamed u.s. officials confirmed and b.k. was involved in the assassination of a number of iranian nuclear scientists backed by israeli intelligence service

massage and by israel secret service this quaint tehran is named after terrorists a man iranian nuclear scientist killed in his own car this area known as written job is a very poor and vibrant place many people pass through here while heading to the mountains resort outside to hear on an ideal location to remind people about something that shouldn't be forgotten or forgiven. mohamed says make a recognized as a democratic alternative to run in authorities feel surreal to him that. nothing's changed they are terrorist tactics may be changed but still the west uses it to get information to get what they want. and the terrorists he says is likely to keep his brutal ways to. from iran. divisive election campaign is looming over egypt with a new parliamentary vote now due to take place within the next two months it comes after president morsi signed and packed the country's first post in

a bar constitution party or to stage a referendum the yes vote was confirmed on trees day after an official probe into allegations of vote rigging turned up nothing but a reaction here as opposition protesters took to the streets of cairo liberals claim the islamic draft constitution betrays the revolution and sidelines the rights of women and minorities in egypt one middle east expert told r.t. the islamists will lose power if they fail to meet the people's that. this is the first time in the constitution that you have the president cannot. went and cannot . you have a prime minister who is actually empowered to take decisions without going back to the president so it empowers other centers as other elected civilian centers of power but you have. democratic elections brought the last forty years to become the majority what will happen if these islamist parties could not deliver on the promises could not have

a guarantee about the security about the economic conditions i think what will happen the people will vote against them if you look at the voting behavior in egypt in the parliamentary elections around seventy percent voted for islamist. parties and in the presidential elections around fifty one percent to the vote is declining going down mainly because they are not the opposition and the more they have to deliver on the promises they cannot just for most while the not delivered so now people have expectations and they can control politicians by voting with only days left until the end of the year he recalls the most significant global events of the past twelve months and today will look back at the american presidential election and the memorable debates that preceded it.

we have been running the election of close to your reason for more than two weeks before the election every single day there was a story by a correspondent running wild guests on the show it cetera et cetera so given the voice through the third parties was exactly what we needed to get the full picture . we are just a couple hours away now from the third party debate as you can see our production crew is busy transforming our studio in a debate floor one of the most important functions of democracy is the debate a lot of discussion about a lot of issues and the more we can open up don't credit institutions like our our election system which of all the parties to what it might even be considered fringe parties more likely we are to have an open arms wide variety of issues rather than a very narrow people often ask why is it a tool for straight what you know are those right heads in the country to compete

and then you have to explain that there are other voices but that they're pushed out of the process because they're not part of the big party machine on foreign policy for example the alternative candidates have clearly been against military intervention is against military expansion ideas that will fly with the four washington establishment the other networks covered president obama and governor romney to debating whatever break here in our studios we had two very serious candidates talk about a very serious issues that were absent elsewhere everywhere they talked about the n.b.a. they talked about drones to talk about the war on drugs and this is something that we put together because not only do we know there was a point but our audience was asking for it we haven't seen it too much of you in the mainstream media do you think tomorrow they will be talking about how you did impact. election oh that would be the pie in the sky is that would impact the election and let me just give you a car knowledge. of the libertarian party. you know the fact is you go from an

on going to a spoiler to a player we really need to be bringing third parties fourth parties just parties into that but you're blocking traffic even opposite her personality types so i think you know. i feel like this is a win for the american people that we have been able to enter into this race to break into the party and offer the solutions that the american people are clamoring for. and up next so continue telling the story of till the most violent gangs in u.s. history.

remains a mystery even for specialists how a voice can produce several sounds it warms to the unions the art of throat singing comes naturally picked up like a language. a language of communicating with nature it said that's where throat singing originates from unions believe not only animals but also surrounding objects like reverse forests and even stones of souls by imitating the sounds they believe assumes to capture the power of nature. there are special instruments that accompany the singing if gainey says there is even a legend about his instrument a gill it says once there lived

a poor shefford who had the best horse that won every competition but jealous people killed it on the horse was revived as an instrument that was it was up to full is because of the spirit of the horse going to his dream he said make an instrument from the tree the sounding board from the leather of my face the strings . and to remember me make an engraving of my head part of the instrument he did so i called the instrument again which means come back and this melody on the instrument is called cry over. two boys one of the most famous groups in the republic their next goal is to tour broad they say for you are peons it's difficult to pick up and sing so i asked them to teach me and see if i can do it. cheerleader.

chen oh you. should say get out. there was you could take a while. but now it is only a movie part of the song and not the actual throat singing which i didn't dare try to repeat. so maybe you have to be born here to be able to sing like this puzzled so until i met mall she looks like it to vini and i don't even speak their language but she is from japan. most s. too far in my answer from two hundred years ago until sappy here she's not planning a professional singing career she keeps practicing just because it's become part of her nature.

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